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Kant's Struggle for Autonomy
On the Structure of Practical Reason
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2022
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In Kant’s Struggle for Autonomy: On the Structure of Practical Reason, Raef Zreik presents an original synoptic view of Kant’s practical philosophy, uncovering the relatively hidden architectonics of Kant’s system and critically engaging with its broad implications. He begins by investigating the implicit strategy that guides Kant in making the distinctions that establish the autonomous spheres: happiness, morality, justice, public order-legitimacy. The organizing principle of autonomy sets these spheres apart, assuming there is self-sufficiency for each sphere. Zreik then develops a critique of this strategy, showing its limits, its costs, and its inherent instability. He questions self-sufficiency and argues that autonomy is a matter of ongoing struggle between the forces of separation and unification. Zreik proceeds to suggest that we “read Kant backward,” reading early Kant in light of late Kant. This reading reveals Kant's strategy of both taking things apart and putting them together, focusing on the joints, transitions, and metastructures of the system. The image emanating from this account of Kant’s legal and moral philosophy is of an intimate yet tragic conflict within Kant’s thought—one that leaves us to our own judgment as to where to draw the boundaries between spheres, opening the door for politicizing Kant's practical philosophy.
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2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-3883-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-3884-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
312
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Abbreviations No access
Kant’s Strategy of Retreat No access Pages 1 - 6
Autonomy in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason No access Pages 7 - 20
The Autonomy of Morality No access Pages 21 - 48
The Autonomy of Justice (Law) No access Pages 49 - 76
The Autonomy of Public Order (Legitimacy) No access Pages 77 - 96
Critique of Kant’s Strategy of Retreat No access Pages 97 - 100
The Autonomy of Public Order (Legitimacy) Revisited No access Pages 101 - 112
The Autonomy of Justice (Law) Revisited No access Pages 113 - 154
The Autonomy of Morality Revisited No access Pages 155 - 228
Beyond Kant: Engagements with Current Debates No access Pages 229 - 230
Wood and Willaschek No access Pages 231 - 250
Korsgaard on Lexical Priority, Rigorism, and the Double-Level Theory No access Pages 251 - 262
Herman and the Sensitivity to the Particular No access Pages 263 - 276
